Ashhurst

Date: 2008

From: New Zealand Century Farm and Station Program :New Zealand Century Farm and Station Award applications

Reference: MS-Papers-9389-20

Description: The papers consist of: Application form submitted by R Mai; extracts from various publications about the Mai family including and account of the voyage of the `England'. See MS-Papers-9389-31 for published summary & photographs. Original owner was Mathias (Matt) Mai from Denmark who acquired 50 hectacres of land near Ashhurst in the Pohangina Survey District in 1908. In 2008 the property is farmed by great grandson Reuben Mai as an organic dairy. In 2008 the property was awarded the New Zealand Century Farm and Station award to mark over 100 years of continuous ownership by one family. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, printed matter (some photocopies)

Date: 1890

From: Smith, Maurice Crompton, 1864-1953 :[Sketchbooks] 1883-1899, 1904-1943.

By: Crompton-Smith, Maurice, 1864-1953

Reference: E-300-q-3-009

Description: A view of the township of Ashhurst Other Titles - Ashhurst from Manawatu Gorge Hotel Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 100 x 180 mm

Date: 1878

By: Halcombe, Edith Stanway, 1844-1903

Reference: A-226-006-a

Description: Ashhurst in the distance Lithograph from: The Feilding Settlement, Manchester Block, Manawatu, New Zealand. By A W F Halcombe Note on lithograph ESH 1878 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph (two-tone) 111 x 198 mm

Date: 1895

By: Owen, Frank, 1851-1907; Levin & Company Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.4391gbbd/1895/Acc.6324

Description: Surveyed (cadastral) map of Ashhurst township, showing numbered blocks and sections, streets and survey markings. On map: 'All sold except section 80, 18/2/[18]95.' '326/8 on which the church stands'. Signed by the surveyor. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on dressed linen, linen backed, scale [1:2 376], 60.4 x 74 cm.

Date: 1962 - 1968

By: Oroua County (N.Z.). County Council; New Zealand. General Assembly Library

Reference: MapColl-832.43eac/1962/Acc.31102

Description: Four maps that are part of the 1962 Oroua County district scheme, including one each of the Halcombe, Bunnythorpe, Ashhurst townships and one of the entire Oroua County. Contains two separate reference sheets that refer to the Halcombe and the Oroua County maps. The three township maps show zoning, reserves, recreation areas, water, railways, streets, and district boundaries. The Oroua County map annotations identify zoning, reserves, recreation areas, water, railways, streets, district boundaries, hospitals and community buildings, and are colour-coded to the reference sheet; other annotations name schools, halls and cemeteries. The Oroua County borders Rangitikei, Woodville, Manawatu and Kiwitea counties. All maps are diazo prints. Only the county map has watercolour annotations. Quantity: 4 map(s) bound together. Physical Description: 4 maps and 2 reference sheets, diazo and watercolour on paper, bound with cardboard covers and fabric, scales differ, 69 x 134 cm or smaller.

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-0824-F

Description: Panoramic view of Konewa farm near Ashhurst, showing newly cleared hillsides in rough country. Taken by Robert Percy Moore Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Konewa Ashhurst NZ No. 361 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 116.7 cm

Date: 1897

From: Swan family : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-0109-014

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1946-1949

From: Easterbrook-Smith family: Collection

Reference: PA1-q-1066

Description: Photographs of motorsports. Includes photographs of Alvis automobile, the Paekakariki Hill Climb in 1946? and 1949, Karehana Bay Hill Climb in 1948, Saddle Road Hill Climb at Ashhurst in 1947 and 1949, Petone North Island Sprint Championship in 1948, Carterton sprint in 1949, Waikanae beach race in 1948, and a pre-war Rover automobile. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 295 x 260 mm

Date: 28 December 1907

From: Wall, John Reginald, 1870?-1944 :Photographs

Reference: PA6-725

Description: Photograph of the Ashhurst Guineas horse race, taken 28 December 1907 by J R Wall. Shows a group of people watching horses approach the finish line. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - The Ashhurst Guineas. 1907 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 52.3 x 16 [visible image], with mat board

Date: 2000-2007

From: Maclean, Elizabeth Susan, 1932-2011 : Research papers relating to Frederick de Jersey Clere

Reference: MS-Papers-11828-28

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 23 Jun 2005

From: New Zealand Defence Force Military oral history project

By: Hewitt, Albert Trevor, 1926-

Reference: OHInt-0938-19

Description: Interview with Albert Trevor Hewitt, born in Raetihi in 1926. Talks about contracting polio when he was 10 which left him with permanent paralysis in his left leg and having to wear calipers. Comments that when he could no longer play sport he took up rifle shooting in his mid teens, and this led to taking charge of the cadet armoury at high school. Mentions his father, a World War One veteran, joined the National Reserve as a sniper in World War II. Describes being recruited in early 1943 to be part of a small Home Guard squad who were issued with rifles, ammunition and a uniform to guard the Ashhurst race course if Japanese planes appeared. Mentions the family followed news of war and threats overseas during the 1930s and were more concerned with events in Europe than with the Japanese invasion of China. Reflects on people's feelings about what was happening overseas as the war progressed and news of German raiders attacking cargo ships around New Zealand. Refers to the Japanese prisoner of war camp near Featherston and fears that if the prisoners got guns they could take over the country. Remembers American servicemen in Ashhurst chatting up the girls, and recalls hearing about the "Battle of Manners Street". Recalls the Polish refugee children being taken by train through Palmerston North en route to Pahiatia. Mentions he was working in Wellington in the Census and Statistics Department in 1945 when news of VE Day arrived, public servants showering paper out of windows, and his supervisor sending him home early while trams were still running. Comments that the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima was greeted enthusiastically, but his family wondered whether the second atomic bomb was really necessary and it took years to realise the full impact of the bombs. Recalls how news of the Nazi extermination camps filtered through, but he feels that there little in the news media about Japanese atrocities. Interviewer(s) - Martin Halliday Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-017858 - OHC-017859 Quantity: 1 Electronic document(s) - transcript. 1 transcript(s) - printed. 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). 1.40 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHDL-000416, OHA-6363. Search dates: 1926 - 1939 - 2005 - 1945

Date: 6 April 2004

From: Drovers Project

By: Pullen, William Roy, 1940-; Pullen, Gillian Leigh, 1950-

Reference: OHInt-0759-05

Description: Oral history interview with William Pullen, born 9th October 1940 in Takopu, and Gill Pullen (nee. Freeman), born 11th October 1950, in Gisborne. Talk about William's early life on remote stations. Recount his early schooling and detail when he got into droving - talk about working at Dalgety's. Discuss the different role for working dogs - mention William having won Dog Trial National Championships in 1973 and 1982. Discuss Gill's early life - mentions her father being pub manager of a pub that William frequented. Mention Gill's schooling at Kapiti College before returning to Gisborne. Talk about mustering on Mount White Station. Recall how William convinced Gill to go droving. Detail the experience of droving with a family - discuss how meals were prepared. Discuss what makes a good drover - talk about the goals of droving. Recounts a typical drove - mention Gisborne, Hastings, Ashhurst, and Hunterville. Discuss the unwritten codes of droving. Talk about the clothing drovers wore. Discuss the general attitude to drovers over the years - give reasons fo the demise of droving. Talk about the growing use of trucks. Discuss other drovers - mentions Neville Marr, Ken Harding, Smokey Thompson, Bob Prophet, Trevor Stewart, Billy Riddell, Captain MacDonald, Artur MacCrae, Linc Campbell, Morris Ellis - mentions the Barefoot Boys. Describe life on the road and their individual daily routines. Talk about bringing up their children on the road - discuss how the family coped with the isolated lifestyle. Access Contact - See Oral History Librarian Interviewer(s) - Ruth Low Accompanying material - 1 colour photograph, 15 x 10 cm [date unknown]; biographical information relating to William and Gill Pullen; 7 black and white copies of photographs; a copy of Gill Pullen's book 'On the Road Again'. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-014332, OHC-014333, OHC-014334, OHC-014335 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 3.09 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Textual file - Microsoft Word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5013, OHDL-000427. 1 colour photograph, 15 x 10 cm, of William and Gill Pullen [date unknown]; 7 black and white copies of photographs, 15 x 10 cm, of William and Gill's time droving on the road; a copy of Gill Pullen's book 'On the Road Again' contains images of William and Gill Pullen and their family. Search dates: 06/04/2004

Date: [1970s-1990s]

From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage

Reference: PA12-11707

Description: Transparencies of houses in New Zealand, taken by Geoffrey Thornton or Jocelyn Thornton. Each slide mount is annotated with the name or brief description, and/or the location, of the house. Dates and photographer name are sometimes annotated. Title transcribed from item. Many slides are not dated. Arrangement: Transparencies were arranged in a 6-row, 50 slides per row, plastic case labelled 'North Island Houses'. The arrangement was by location of house, approximately from North to South. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies in plastic and cardboard slide mounts. Processing information: Slides have been removed from container and put into archival pockets, following the original order, from left to right and top to bottom.

Date: 1885

From: Swan family : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-0109-001

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: Jan-Sep 1933

By: Hayward family

Reference: MS-Papers-6721

Description: `Haywards monthly mag' is a letterbook used by members of the Hayward family to correspond with each other. Entries from family living on the Chatham Islands, Ashhurst, Rotorua, Napier, Hastings, Levin and Rotorua give family and local news Quantity: 1 folder(s) (1 volume). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss Provenance: Donor is daughter of Art (Arthur Hayward) one of the contributors Includes a few illustrations, and cartoon entitled `Ashhurst man returns'

Date: 1878

By: Halcombe, Edith Stanway, 1844-1903

Reference: A-226-006

Description: View of the plain on which Ashhurst was to be built with the end of the Manawatu Gorge in the foreground, the Gorge road on the left Lithograph from: The Feilding Settlement, Manchester Block, Manawatu, New Zealand. By A W F Halcombe Note on lithograph, lower left, ESH 1878 [printed back-to-front] Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph (two-tone) 111 x 198 mm

Date: 1905-1920

From: In the Light of the Past :Photographs of New Zealand stained glass in houses and public buildings

By: Leatherland, Charles, active 1912

Reference: PA12-1454

Description: Most of these windows have designs based on conventional floral themes. In many the leading is used to provide the linear dynamic typical of art nouveau. The largest group of windows in this section are those in the Wanganui house, "Matai Awa" which was built for William George Bassett in 1912. They are good examples of decorative stained glass in the British arts and crafts/art nouveau style. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: [Circa 1890s to 1900s]

By: Barltrop, George William, 1863-1946

Reference: PA1-o-290

Description: Photographs of various areas in the Manawatu-Wanganui Region and Wellington Region circa 1890s, probably taken by George William Barltrop (identification from other albums in this sequence). A large number show church buildings, including a Roman Catholic church in Johnsonville; an Anglican church in Featherston; St Luke's Anglican Church in Greytown; a church in Carterton; St Matthews Anglican church in Masterton; a church in Pahiatua; one in Ashhurst; an Anglican church in Bunnythorpe; St John's Anglican church in Feilding; All Saints Anglican church in Palmerston North; and a church at Kiwitea. A small group show the area around Alfredton, with a timber mill, several types of saw, and teams of horses transporting logs. One view is of a cemetery, probably in Lower or Upper Hutt, with the gravestone of George Keary clearly visible. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover, impressed title `Photographic views'; `McIntosh VI' lettered in gold on spine; 17.5 x 24.0 cm

Date: 1897

By: Clere, Fitzgerald and Richmond (Firm)

Reference: Plans-80-0945

Description: Plans and elevations Other Titles - Proposed church at Ashhurst Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour 508 x 731 mm Provenance: Presented, 1962 by Mr E H Clere

Date: 1899

From: Babbage, Herbert Ivan, 1875-1916 :[Album of watercolours]

By: Babbage, Herbert Ivan, 1875-1916

Reference: E-285-q-013

Description: The Manawatu Gorge, at the Ashhurst end Other Titles - Ashhurst Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 230 x 295 mm